Existing law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Existing law makes the burglary of a vehicle punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would make forcibly entering a vehicle, as defined, with the intent to commit a theft therein a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Existing law, the Automotive Repair Act, provides for the registration and regulation of automotive repair dealers by the Bureau of Automotive Repair in the Department of Consumer Affairs. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor unless otherwise specified, and may subject a licensee to disciplinary action, including license suspension or revocation. Existing law requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to investigate on a continuous basis and gather evidence of violations of the act, as specified, and authorizes the director to revoke, suspend, or deny a registration on any grounds for disciplinary action provided in the act. Existing law requires disciplinary proceedings to be conducted pursuant to specified administrative adjudication provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. Those provisions require an agency to take one of specified actions within 100 days of receiving a proposed decision by an administrative law judge in a contested case. Existing law prohibits a state agency from employing any in-house counsel to act on behalf of the agency unless the agency has first obtained the written consent of the Attorney General. This bill would require the Director of Consumer Affairs to appoint at least one administrative law judge for each regional office of the bureau to conduct proceedings under the act, and to appoint a chief administrative law judge to organize, coordinate, supervise, and direct the operations of the administrative law judges. The bill would require the director to employ legal counsel, legal assistants, and other personnel that may be necessary for the administration and enforcement of the act. The bill would require the director to take one of specified actions within 10 days of receiving a proposed decision from an administrative law judge in a contested case. This bill would also require the bureau, by July 1, 2022, to establish by regulation a trusted dealer certification program for automotive repair dealers, as specified. The bill would require the bureau to issue a trusted dealer certification to an automotive repair dealer who meets specified requirements, including payment of an annual fee and agreeing to be subject to up to 2 investigations by the bureau's enforcement program each year. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2022, prohibit an automotive repair dealer from using the term "trusted dealer" unless the automobile repair dealer holds a valid trusted dealer certification issued by the bureau. Because a violation of these provisions by a automotive repair dealer would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, if the absence was due to the pupil's illness. This bill would include as another type of required excused absence an absence that is for the benefit of the mental or behavioral health of the pupil. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on local educational entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon application for an original driver's license, except a student license, to require an examination of the applicant. Existing law requires the applicant to submit to an examination appropriate to the type of motor vehicle or combination of vehicles the applicant desires a license to drive. Existing law provides that a person holding a valid California driver's license of any class may operate a short-term rental motorized bicycle without taking any special examination for the operation of a motorized bicycle, and without having a class M2 endorsement on that license, and specifies that "short-term" means 48 hours or less. This bill would additionally define "short-term" to mean a period not to exceed 30 days for an operator who meets specified requirements, including that they are at least 18 years of age and have submitted to a motor vehicle record check. The bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law requires each electrical corporation to annually prepare a wildfire mitigation plan and to submit the plan to the Public Utilities Commission for review and approval, as specified. Following approval, the commission is required to oversee compliance with the plans. Existing law requires a wildfire mitigation plan of an electrical corporation to include, among other things, protocols for deenergizing portions of the electrical distribution system that consider the associated impacts on public safety, as well as protocols related to mitigating the public safety impacts of those protocols, including impacts on critical first responders and on health and communications infrastructure. Existing law requires a wildfire mitigation plan of an electrical corporation to also include appropriate and feasible procedures for notifying a customer who may be impacted by the deenergizing of electrical lines and requires these procedures to consider the need to notify, as a priority, critical first responders, health care facilities, and operators of telecommunications infrastructure with premises within the footprint of a potential deenergization event. This bill would require an electrical corporation to include, as a part of the notification of its customers of a deenergization event, an estimate of the duration of the deenergization event and an estimate of the total area affected, and would require the electrical corporation to update those estimates in subsequent notifications of the deenergization event. The bill would require the electrical corporation to provide initial notifications of a deenergization event to all potentially affected customers at least 72 hours, and again approximately 48 and 24 hours, before the deenergization event using personalized contact, as specified. The bill would require the electrical corporation to additionally provide an initial notification to the public by specified publicly accessible media at least 72 hours before the deenergization event. If the electrical corporation fails to comply with these notification requirements, the bill would require the electrical corporation to submit to the commission written justification for noncompliance. The bill would assess a specified penalty if the commission determines that the noncompliance is not justified. The bill would require the commission to require each electrical corporation to establish a program to provide backup energy storage systems for critical facilities and critical infrastructure, as specified, to enable them to continue operation during a deenergization event and a program to provide those systems to customers receiving medical baseline allowances to enable those customers to continue operating their life-support equipment during a deenergization event. The bill would prohibit an electrical corporation from recovering from its customers the costs incurred for a deenergization event under specified circumstances. Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because this bill requires action by the commission to implement its requirements, and because a violation of that action would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law, the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act, except as specified, requires all applicants to have an active associate registration with the board to gain postdegree hours of supervised experience. The act requires an associate or applicant for licensure to be under the supervision of a supervisor at all times. The act requires an associate to inform each client, prior to performing any professional services, that the associate is unlicensed and under supervision. The act allows an associate to renew the registration a maximum of five times and, thereafter, to obtain a subsequent associate registration number if certain requirements are met. This bill would repeal those associate supervision and registration renewal provisions.
Existing law requires the Podiatric Medical Board of California to enforce and administer certain enforcement provisions of the Medical Practice Act as to doctors of podiatric medicine. Existing law vests the board with other specific enforcement powers. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. Existing law establishes various fees applicable to certificates to practice podiatric medicine, including, but not limited to, a duplicate wall certificate fee, a duplicate renewal receipt fee, and an endorsement fee. Existing law requires these fees to be deposited in the Podiatric Medical Board Fund and makes these fees subject to appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would delete those fees, and establish a duplicate certificate fee of $100.
Existing law, the Barbering and Cosmetology Act, establishes the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology for the licensure and regulation of barbers and cosmetologists. A violation of the act is a crime, unless otherwise provided. The act requires the board to conduct certain reviews and report its findings and recommendations as prescribed by November 1, 2018. The act provides that it confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery. This bill would delete that obsolete report requirement. The bill would prohibit the practice of medicine from being performed by, or offered by, a licensee under the act without being authorized and licensed to perform that act pursuant to a license obtained in accordance with some other provision of law.
Existing law required the Department of Real Estate, by January 1, 1991, to develop a booklet on common environmental hazards that are located on, and affect, real property. Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Control Substances to publish a new edition of the booklet. This bill would require the department to make the booklet available on its internet website, upon appropriation by the Legislature of funds for this purpose. The bill would make other nonsubstantive changes.